Tag Archives: Mad River Valley

Skiing with the Kids

by

©Brian Mohr/ EmberPhoto - All rights reserved

After climbing Vermont’s General Stark Mountain (home of Mad River Glen ski area), we opted for a quick family photo before setting off on a very fun descent down Mad River Glen’s northeast facing trail network. Despite the dearth of snow here in Vermont this season, there is still top to bottom skiing at Mad River Glen right now. Our girls (Maiana, 3 yrs, and Lenora, 8 mos) ride on our backs when we climb mountains and ski, often sleeping for 1-2 hours during our climb, and then waking in time to enjoy the thrill of gravity with us on the way down.

Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!

A Fall Wedding in Vermont’s Mad River Valley

by

A fall wedding in Vermont's Mad River Valley - ©Brian Mohr/EmberPhoto

A huge congrats! to Skylar and Nichole, who recently celebrated their wedding on an amazingly beautiful fall day in Vermont. Best of luck to you both!

Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!

A Beautiful Late-Summer Wedding in Vermont

by

Emma and Ken - September 2015 - The Skinner Barn - Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont

A big congrats! to Emma and Ken, who celebrated their wedding on a beautiful late summer day at the Skinner Barn in Vermont’s Mad River Valley. We wish these two the very best! – Brian and Emily

Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!

Love and Rainbows in Vermont…

by

Congrats to Erica and Ben, who recently married and celebrated with family and friends on their beautiful property in the very heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. Our wedding schedule is already booking up for 2014, so please contact us soon if are planning an event you’d like us to photograph in the coming year. Thanks! – Brian and Emily


Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!


Baby Snowflake

by

We’ve got a little girl on the way. We’ve been calling her Little Snowflake. And while she seems to be very much enjoying her time in the womb – including the nearly sixty ski days she’s logged, albeit upside down and backwards! – we expect to meet her very soon during the month of February. So stay tuned for more updates!

Camera Info: Canon 7D, 95mm, ISO 250, 1/200, f16;

If you are interested in any images within our growing selection of fine-art photography, please contact us or take a look at our Print Pricing page, for more info. Thanks!

Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!


Foliage Skiing on ESPN

by

While there may not be much more than fallen leaves covering the valleys, colder temps have enabled snow to fall in our local mountains several times already this month. With good color still clinging to the hardwood trees, it’s a real treat to out in the snow this time of year. Foliage skiing, as we tend to call it around here, has become an annual pastime…seasonally appropriate adventure at its best. We recently published a short writeup and photo essay on the subject on ESPN.com. You can check it out HERE.
Happy fall!

– Brian and Emily

Camera Info: Canon 5D, 50mm, ISO 400, 1/160, f4;

If you are interested in any images within our growing selection of fine-art photography, please contact us or take a look at our Print Pricing page, for more info. Thanks!

Follow this LINK to “Like” EmberPhoto on Facebook. Thanks!


The Ski Season Begins!

by

The first significant snow-producing nor’easter of the 2010-11 season dumped 10-30+″ of heavy snow over our highest mountain areas of the Northeast this past weekend (VT’s Greens and NY’s Adirondacks, especially), and skiers have been out since Friday morning(10/15) embracing the return of our good friend Old Man Winter. Below are a couple of images we captured that illustrate the incredible contrast between the world at base elevation in Vermont (approx. 1800′) and the winter wonderland above (2000′ higher) along Vermont’s Green Mountain divide. For more images from the storm, head to our skiing website, AdventureSkier.com, where we posted two batches of photos from the storm and skiing this past week in Vermont: LINK 1 and LINK 2

Yes, the photo above is real – captured on Saturday, Oct 16 close to our home in Vermont!

Thank you Old Man Winter for a good dose of what’s to come in the months ahead.

-Brian and Emily

Ski It While You Can!

by

Weeks of surfing beautiful ocean waves on the coast and running/biking through the brilliant colors of fall in the mountains were capped this week by our first ski day of the season.  By sunrise on Wednesday 10/22, 2-3″ of October snow had blanketed our local mountains – just enough to make our favorite low-angle, moss-laden, rock-free ski runs skiable. We climbed and skied for about five hours…caught up with some great friends…and probably logged a casual 5000′ vertical.

It was a real treat be back on the skis again… Emily is “quite pleased”. If the big brown stripes on the woolly catepillars are any indication, we are in for another snowy winter.

Ski it while you can!

Brian and Emily